Hello! First off my name is Ty and I am from AZ, I am new to this forum and to motorcycles in general. Although I may be new to this, I had purchased a 1978 cb550k from the second owner a few months back. It was a bit beat up honestly and had not run in the past 6 years. The owner could not figure out what was wrong with it and sold it to me for cheap. After a good carb clean and rebuild later and replacing of broken and missing parts, I got the bike fired right up! It only took me about a week to learn how to get it back from the dead but due to financials, it really took me two months.... But none the less, it is alive!!! It does have some problems though that I hope to find the solutions to through this forum. I'm going big on this bike and need to get it to run perfectly (at least close to perfect) before I make this bike into one of the main attractions for this cb550 model. If have questions or comments about my plans, I would gladly share all of my thoughts out loud. The current problem with the bike is that it DOES NOT WANT TO IDLE. I turn it over and it will occasionally rev up to 3rpm and stay there. I can only ride the bike when the CHOKE IS ON. If the choke even slips a little off it dies. Also, for whatever reason when I put the bike into first gear, it stalls out REPEATEDLY. I have noticed though that when I prop up the rear tire off of the ground, I can shift through the gears very easily without any stalling, could that be because of the lack of my body weight on the rear tire?? I have no idea but I hope that I can find out. And the last thing that I have noticed is that when I lean the bike to my right, the rpm lowers until it decides to die where as if I lean to the left, the rpm stays the same and nothing happens. Not sure why it is acting that way and I cannot seem to find a forum that addresses that problem for the pd46c carbs on this cb550k. If anyone may know what could lead to these poor performance conditions, advice would be extremely appreciated. Thank you.
